Lightning
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jean Echenoz ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
Contributors: Coverdale, Linda
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781595586490
Subjects: Europeans; Fiction; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Inventions; Electrical engineering; Inventors; Electrical engineers; History
Other titles: Lightning
Work titles: Des éclairs
Description: A fictional portrait of Nikola Tesla. Traces the notable career of Gregor, a precocious young engineer from Eastern Europe, who travels across the Atlantic to work alongside Thomas Edison, with whom he later holds a long-lasting rivalry.